Antonio Ballester Moreno’s “Blue & Yellow” Project in Lisbon

Lisbon’s Pedro Cera Gallery opened on January 17 the first solo show of Madrid’s artist Antonio Ballester Moreno in its space: Azul e Amarelo. The show can be watched through March 7, 2014. 

Pablo Llorca commented, “Antonio Ballester Moreno’s work has passed with double impulse: the opportunity for a professional artist to express his feelings in a purely instinctive way, and the viability of reflecting on it, direct or tangentially. A trend that, in an effort to vindicate the simplicity and irrationality, tries to get attached to the spirit and ways of children and it represents a tradition in terms of the painting from the past two centuries.

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This time round, the painter proposes a relation with nature, which has been present in his previous work. He establishes links between yellow and light, blue and water. The merge of both colors brings about the green one, the color of plants. It takes another element to fulfill that process: brown land. (…)”

Antonio Ballester Moreno was born in Madrid in 1977, where he presently lives and works. He graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Madrid, and he is described as one of the key figures to the young Spanish artistic scene. His work is mentioned on Vitamine P2 monograph, published by Phaidon in 2012. The most recent exhibitions he has carried out: Cobre, Cobalto y Plomo (Maisterravalbuena, Madrid, 2013); No School (La Casa Encendida, Madrid, 2011); ANTI (Kreuzberg), Peres Projects, Berlin; Antonio Ballester Moreno, Joeng Song Art Center / RMK International Art, Seoul, South Korea, 2009; Gallo Rojo, Gallo Negro, MUSAC – Castilla y León’s Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008; andHunter House and Bear Suit, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, 2008.

Source: Pedro Cera Gallery